Limestone
This rock ranges in color from white to yellow to pink to red to gray to black. It is usually used as building material and in statues.
This rock ranges in color from white to yellow to pink to red to gray to black. It is usually used as building material and in statues.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18583 | 33-35-98 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. White with two ochrous yellow strata. The outside cut as a flower with 12 sharply pointed petals in high relief: the color of the stone lends to the flower effect. The rim chipped: otherwise complete. [Type] 2. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 18248 | 33-35-172 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition. |
| 18709A | 33-35-122A | (none) | (none) | [A-P] Polished stone celts. 16 in all. |
| 18517 | 33-35-112 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Miniature. Limestone. Roughly made, irregular. [Type] 50. [drawing] | |
| 18575 | 33-35-108 | (none) | (none) | Stone tumbler. Fine grained limestone. [Type] 35. [drawing] | |
| 18689 | 33-35-106 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. [Type] 12. [drawing] | |
| 18549 | 33-35-103 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] 20. [drawing] | |
| 18516 | 33-35-100 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Banded limestone. [Type] 10. [drawing] |
| 17717 | 32-40-436 | (none) | (none) | Pictograph. Limestone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17853 | 32-40-435, 32-40-435 | (none) | (none) | Limestone fragment. Flaked off from a curved drum with inscription (nearly completed). --To Amurru; His God; (for) life; Warad-Sin; King of Larsa |
| 17850 | 32-40-333, 32-40-333 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder (seal?) unpierced. White limestone with 4 columns of inscription. Two names. NU-UR-KU-BI son of DUG-GA-AN-SA and E-MU-MA-NI-DA son of NU-UR-KU-BI. HC 1931 / 1 |
| 17726 | 32-40-330 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion. |
| 17678 | 32-40-324 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679. |
| 17662 | 32-40-319 | (none) | (none) | Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17869 | 32-40-316 | (none) | (none) | Jeweller's trial piece (?). Fragment of a four-sided rod of white limestone: on one side a roughly cut intaglio; a small figure of a man copulating with a woman, the latter figure large and grotesque. | |
| 18142C | 32-40-260 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
| 17681 | 32-40-142 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Pink limestone. Not RC or L [drawing] | |
| 17935G | 32-40-108 | (none) | (none) | Celts. [All objects drawn, objects grouped by material description] [A-B] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [C-E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Basalt [drawing 1:1] [G] Limestone [drawing 1:1] |
| (none) | 31-43-78 | (none) | (none) | Unknown | |
| 16927G | 31-43-7 | (none) | (none) | Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering] | |
| 17015 | 31-43-52 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose | |
| 16547 | 31-43-51 | (none) | (none) | Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3. | |
| 17006 | 31-43-484 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. In shape of date stone. Limestone? White [drawing 1:1] |
| 16179 | 31-43-28 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures. | |
| 16675 | 31-43-276 | (none) | (none) | Mace Head. Limestone. White. Squat Pear Shaped. [Drawing] lob to seal. Ht 005 D. 0025. Vol VII Rubbish AH |
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Breccia - Chert/Flint - Sandstone - Shale
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